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Catalog Sho~ping Beautiful Way to B:eafll D,old,ru;m,s I hate to be considered npatriotic, but I must admit . that I do enjoy fashions (in abything-home, clotJJ,ing, etc.) that come from other countpes. Perhaps it's the idea of many of the items around t e world being produced individually rather th,an on the at the International Airport mass production basis that Dept. in Iceland. Filled with such items we know so well here in the as handsome hand knitted sweat· States. Or perhaps it's just ers and beautiful silver jewelry, the mystery that surrounds goods from other countries, their novelty and their in many cases lower price.
it's already making my ordering hand itch. Catalog shopping is a beautiful way to dream through January and FebrttllLry doldrums!
Says Religious Freedom Guaranteed in Uganda
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MARILYN RODERICK
Most of the time it's difficult to buy from abroad unless you have ~he opportunity to travel. The next best thing to actual shopping in the European market is possession of a catalog that .will give· you illustrations and price lists for goods in which a country specializes. Up until recently, getting such brochures and catalogs really took some doing; that is; until Maria Elena de la Iglesia compiled a book titled "The Catalogue Of Catalogues", a complete guide to world-wide shopping by mail. Unique Items Published by Random House in 1972, this book lists the addresses of concerns willing to do a mail order business. The unusual, the unique, the hard-to-find in clothes, toys, fabrics and household goods are among items that one can locate in the "Catalogue Of Catalogues". . The initial cost of this book is $4.95, but you can quickly recoup this on lower prices of goods listed. When we buy European goods in this country we very often forget the many hands they have passed through before reaching us, all adding to the final cost. Here the work is all yours. You write for the catalogs, yo1,l have to do the order~ ing when they arrive and of course you have to wait for the period of time it ta~es for your order to be filled. Ordering Hand Itches We've only had Maria's book for a couple of weeks but already some of the catalogs we have ordered have begun to arrive. The other. day one came in from the Icemart Mail Order
Says U.S. Population Exceeds 210 Million WASHINGTON (NC) - The . U. S. Census Bureau said the U. S. population at the start of 1973 was 210,194,312. The gain in population during 1972 was 1.6 million persons, the federal agency said, adding that the advance was lower than the .gains of 1971 and 1970. The population estimate includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the armed forces, federal employes living abroad and their dependents.
KAMPALA (NC) - Uganda's President Idi Amin told a special diplomatic delegation sent· 'by Pope Paul vi that religious freedom is guaranteed in this country and that he is not against Catholics as such. The papal delegation, headed by African-born Archbishop Bernardin Gantin, associate secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization' of Peoples, was sent to l)ganda after Amin had expelled dozens of European Christian missionaries on grounds that their papers were not ,in order and that some of them had undergone' military training' and .therefore were not to be trusted. Amin told the' papal envoys Dec. 19 that his policy "Is not to allow anybody. in Uganda to bring confusion." Earlier he had accused Archbishop Emmanuel Nsbuga of Kampala of being implicated in Israeli and South African plots against his governmen·t. He had also stressed that he wants to see all religions in his country' fully Ugandized to remove "the danger of foreigners trying to sow the seeds of dissension and destruction in the country."
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WASHINGTON (NC) ~ Nonschool superintendents Ihave joined public school offi,cials in a second national con· ference here sponsored by the pffice of Education of the U.S. pept. of Health, Education and :Welfare. The first conference held last l~ear in Warrenton, Va., involved ~chool officials from cities of more than 300,000 population. ifhis year invitations were extended to superintendents from tities with more than 200,000 population and where more than five per cent of the children are ~nrolled in nonpublic schools. I The planning committee in,fludes Msgr. James Habiger, president, Chief Catholic Administrators, Winona, Minn.; Msgr. francis Schulte, archdiocese of fhiladelphia superintendent of $chools; Father John Meyers, National Catholic Educational Association; Richard Thomp~on, executive secretary of the Council for American ~rivate Education; Dr. E. L. Whigham, Dade County,' Fla.,' ~ubliC s c h 0 0 I superintengent, committee chairman; Dr. U.ouis Kishkunas, Pittsburgh superintendent; Dr. James Red+ond, Chicago. superintendent; and Dr. Gene Geisert, New Or. I~ans superintendent.
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Support Bish~op/s Stand on Strike EL PASO (NC) - The Council of Priests of the El Paso Diocese has endorsed Bishop Sidney M. Metzger's statement of support for the strike against the Farah Manufacttiring Co. here in Texas. Bishop Metzger last June announced his support for about 3,000 workers, mostly MexicanAmericans, who have been on strike since May 9 against the clothing manufacturer. The workers charge the firm tried to prevent the unionization of its employes. The priests' council, at its December meeting, issued the following resolution: "The Council of Priests supports the bishop in his stand on the strike at the Farah plant and offers to help in any way it. can." Antonio Sanchez, manager of the El Paso Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, said the strike was the result of the firing of about 250 Farah workers by the - company since JUBILARIANS: Mr. and Mrs. Leo Yell, residents of 1969, the year the union. began Sacred Heart Home in New Bedford, celebrated their Gold- its attempts to organize the em· ployes. . en Wedding Anniversary at the Home on. Jan. 6. In his statement. supporting the strike, Bishop Metzger had said: "The Church has to defend demands of social justice, i.e., the dignity of man, the dignity of Equal Rights Amendment Opposed labor and the right of the workBy Women's Council er to a living wage. Any obstaST. PAUL (NC) - The St. en has "consistently supported cles that may be set up to prePaul-Minneapolis Archdiocesan legislation that safeguards worn- . vent the workers from receiving Council of Catholic Women en's rights including the Equal a living wage are unjust." (ACCW) has launched a cam· Pay Act and the Equal Rights paign against a constitutional Act which forbids discrimination Catholic Organizations amendment giving equal rights on employment." In Public Spotlight to women. Mrs. Tracy said that although For Catholics in the United The council said that it favored states have seven years to ratify States, 1972 was a year in the laws protecting the rights of or reject the. amendment; "state women but that it feared the after state 'has ratified this public spotlight. . As members of right-to-life . h Equal RIg ts Amendment (ERA) amendment without its legisla- . groups and nonpublic school. orwou Id " open a Pan dora ' s box 0 f tive members really knowing the ganizations, Catholics fought leg· legal complications." ramifications of its passing." Congress approved the amende, islative and court battles; as ment last year, and more than The letter proposes to "en- members of the "Catholic ethnic" 20 states have already approved force the laws we now have, or' vote, they were courted by poliit. It will become law if 39 states if necessary, pass new laws but· ticians of both parties. ratify it. The Minnesota legisla- let us be wary of rushing into And as these groups captured ture is expected to consider the law something that will abolish public attention, the Catholic amendment in its 1973 session. hundreds of protective statutes peace movement - like other The ACCW announced its op- dealing with inheritance, mar- elements of the anti-war moveposition in letters to all state riage, child support and indus- ment - drifted out of the public legislators. and to all arch- trial life." consciousness. diocesan priests and women's •• ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • ......... parish organizations. DAILY INTEREST SAViNGS ACCOUNTS The letter, signed by Lois Tracy; ACCW president, quoted Paul Freund, a professor at the PER ANNUM Harvard Law school, as sayipg: "If anything about the amendment is clear it is that it would Interest Earned From Day of Deposit to Day of Withdrawal transform every provision.of law concerning women into a constiALL DEPOSITS INSURED IN FULL tutional issue to be ultimately. resolved by the. Supreme Court. Minimum Deposit $100 PAID UP SHARE ACCOUNTS Maximum Deposit $40,000 . "Every statutory and common 1L law provision dealing with the 72 0 Dividends Paid Quarterly and Every IN PASSBOOK FORM Dollar Insured in Full manifold relations of women in society would be forced to run No Notice Required for Withdrawal the gauntlet of attack on constitutional grounds." The letter states that the National Council of Catholic Wom-
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Non-Christian Weddings Allowed in Churches TOKYO (NC) - The Japanese. bishops, at a recent meeting,. dis~ussed the growing practice of n~n-Christians in Japan asking ~o have their weddings take place in a Catholic church. The bishops said they are re-' luctant to di.scourage the practice because it provides contact with young non·Christian couples, but it laid down certain conditions for such ceremonies.
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